[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Add first KF5 packages

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Feb 14 20:29:43 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 06:59:45 +0100, Bernd Kuhls wrote:

> according to the buildroot manual[1], section 17.1, new subdirectories, 
> like package/kf5/, are discouraged, please add the new packages directly 
> to package/.

I do agree in general. However, kf5 like qt5 is a group of packages
that share the same site/version number, and in that case, like we do
for qt5, a subdirectory is acceptable.

I'm also not a big fan of sub-directories, but it's the only sane way
to share version/site variables.

Thomas
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